squad by maggie tokuda hall and lisa sterle

Female friendship sits front and center in this supernatural vigilante story, even when plans unravel. Arianna, the alpha, dons a high pony queer, Asian Becca dresses casually Marley, who’s white, is the bubbly, girly blonde and Amanda, who’s Black, rocks natural hair that is sometimes braided, sometimes springy and cloud-like. Sterle uses her illustrations-rendered in a classic teen style, with stylish outfits and deliberate linework-to differentiate the girls. Every full moon, they hunt predatory dudes-and they need a fourth member to help eat the evidence.

When a drunk bro tries to assault Becca at a Bay Area beach party, her new, popular friends intervene, revealing that they are not a squad so much as a pack. Lisa Sterle's stylish illustrations paired with Maggie Tokuda-Hall's sharp writing make Squad a fierce, haunting, and fast-paced thriller that will resonate with fans of Riverdale, and with readers of This Savage Song, Lumberjanes, and Paper Girls.After a friendly exchange of menstrual products, cool-girl Marley invites new-girl Becca to join her clique, thus setting into motion a Heathers-esque tale about a smart teen who discovers the darker cost of fitting in. As their pack begins to buckle under the pressure, their moral high ground gets muddier and muddier-and Becca realizes that she might have feelings for one of her new best friends.

Eager to be accepted, Becca allows her friends to turn her into a werewolf, and finally, for the first time in her life, she feels like she truly belongs.īut then things get complicated. Their prey? Slimy boys who take advantage of unsuspecting girls. But at a party under a full moon, Becca learns that they also have a big secret.īecca's new friends are werewolves. At first glance, Marley, Arianna, and Mandy are perfect. To her surprise, she's immediately adopted by the most popular girls in school. When Becca transfers to a high school in an elite San Francisco suburb, she's worried she's not going to fit in. When the new girl is invited to join her high school's most popular clique, she can't believe her luck-and she can't believe their secret, either. Pretty Little Liars meets Teen Wolf in this sharply funny, and patriarchy-smashing graphic novel from author Maggie Tokuda-Hall and artist Lisa Sterle. SQUAD is a fast-paced and feminist horror story for every girl who's ever felt like prey, and asks how far a girl should go to hunt the hunters.'-Laura Ruby, author of National Book Award Finalist Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

But Becca's new friends are more than a clique, they're a pack, and this pack is hungry. Becca wants what every high-schooler does: to have a group of friends, a squad. 'People call them all kinds of names-creeps, jerks.

Squad by maggie tokuda hall and lisa sterle